Palestinians erect tent city in E-1 to protest settlement construction

Police block off area; group behind the protest in the E-1 corridor, between Jerusalem and Ma'ale Adumim in the West Bank, says it will not leave until 'Palestinian owners of this land are allowed to realize their right to it.'

Dozens of Palestinians erected semi-permanent tents in the E-1 area of the West Bank on Friday in protest at continuing construction in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, and in attempt to create a foothold for what they hope will become a permanent settlement.

Arabs are nothing in this world except to follow orders from the
americans, and zionists.I would like to say to King Abdula of Jordan
just keep quite because those who occupied arab lands of West bank, Gaza
and Golan heights are Americans and israelis and they ill never give un
inch of the occupied land.More over they have destroyed and killed as
many people in afghanistan,Iraq, Libya ,Palestine and now syria and you
have given them a shelter.

If the West Bank is disputed territory then its ownership should be
determined without resorting to acts that create illegal de-facto
settlements. If the Palestinians object to Israeli's establishing
'illegal' settlements why are they doing the same? They are so
hypocritical - this is obviously a publicity stunt.

... then through force. Well, the promised war on the nascent Jewish
State on the order of the bloody crusades was not allowed by the G-d of
Israel to materialize and instead defeat of evil intentions was the
outcome. The Palestinians need to go through an intensive and
challenging internal jihad to clean house and start realizing the
establishment of a peaceful State alongside Israel (and not in place of
it) instead of yet again taking the easy way out and launching more
external jihads that are no more than exercises in futility as they pit
themselves against G-d's unfolding and indestructible covenant with Israel.

And that is the blood-curdling chants of the militant Palestinians and
their salivating Islamist/Arab supporters of waging a war of
extermination of the Jews on the bloody order of the Crusades. Well you
bet on the wrong horse, the covetous one, the one bred in greed and
malice, the one steeped in historical and spiritual revisionism, the one
that the most high G-d does not honor. Enjoy your illogic and your
resultant losses.

Through the agency of the UN Israel was born - if your are a religious
Jew you probably believe that God was instrumental in the birth of the
state of Israel. Certainly Jews today have the strongest claims to the
disputed land as their association with the land goes way back before
the current Arab inhabitants.

And they wouldn't give a damn what the surviving Jews of nascent Israel
thought as they were forced out into their second world-wide diaspora.
The cries and pleas of the uprooted Jews from their ancient land would
fall on deaf ears at the UN as suddenly they'll find that there's more
serious concerns to deal with like the ongoing massacres in Syria and
the dangers of Imperial Iran's drive for regional hegemony and beyond
armed with more than just tasty pistachios, colorful saffron, and
beautiful Persian carpets.

The ceasefire terms included Hamas not sending out civilians to provoke
Israel at the border fence by trying to damage it. But what do you
really care about addressing Hamas for putting their people at risk as
civilian cover after initiating acts of war against Israel because that
would take away from your chronic desire to slash at the Jewish State
with your pen and to use your keyboard as a blunt instrument with which
to strike them with?

Why d you call it a "tent city" instead of a "tent
settlement". It's a couple of dozen tents. Clever, they waited
until the rain stopped... Accorsing to the British Colonial immigration
records this is exactly what the itinerant Arabs did, who came from all
over the surriunding countries in the 1920's and 1930's, looking for
jobs, not really work, just jobs.... They walked across the Jordn with a
camel-hair or old canvas tent, and a few goats and after a week it
looeded as if they'd been there for 100 years. Typical Arab thievery.
And I see the usual, crappy, jew-hating comments sent in here. It's a
good job that these creeps stick to this paper, which is the only one
which would publish their ignorant rants.

I'm all for it. The indigenous people are simply reclaiming their own
land just as the Native Americans, and Aborigines should have done. I
expect the Israelis to move in and crack some skulls which will be
followed by a total boycott by all civilized people of all Israeli
products made in the West Bank.

These so called palestinians are always looking for a way of provocation
and when they get a bloody nose the cry poverty and manipulate everyone
who is as shortsighted as they are... Stupid comment about building your
bomb iran i think your iq is very verrrey low Go to school study and
work for what you want in this life like all of us who got a decent
upbringing I am sick and tired of the poverty pleading palestinians...

clearly your world is simple: israelis good guys (not living on USA
subsidies since foreever), everyone else especially Palestinians bad
guys. sick and tired, that is what you make people who read your words
feel.

Generally if you go to war to destroy your 'enemy' and you lose that
means you have to abide by whatever settlement that you can manage after
that. In this case the Palestinians think they can keep coming back
again and again to try to eliminate Israel. And the rest of the world
keeps helping these misfits.

you are talking about. These are palestinians erecting tents in
palestinian land that is threatend by Israel and its settlers who
dedicate their lives on stealing palestinian lands. Simply they are
trying to protect this land from being stolen by Israel. It is not in
Israel, it is in the West Bank.

Neither terrorism nor unilateral moves by Mahmod Abbas will have any
effect on our government's policies. But sustained passive, non-violent
resistance will cause consternation in the Likud and its right-wing and
religious partners, and, moreover, gain much more sympathy for the
Palestinian cause than shooting rockets at Israeli civilians.

E1 is in the West Bank technically, not
historically part of East Jerusalem. Jews didn't own much land in the
West Bank at all, and not many inhabited the West Bank. There was some
land owned by Jews. That's very true, but how much land have
Palestinians owned all over that you don't care about?

On the pages of most Israeli Internet news sites thousands of comments
are posted every week accusing anyone who does not agree with the
Netanyahu government of being an anti semite and any Jew who voted for
Obama and supports a two State solution is called a self hater and enemy
of the Jewish people. This right wing drumhead has permeated itself into
Israel with former heads of the Shin Bet, Mossad, former generals in the
IDF, and former and current members of the Knesset called traitors and
the enemy because they do not agree with Netanyahu. Former Prime
Minister Rabin has been called a traitor to his people as has former
Foreign Minister Zippi Livni, and former Defense Minister Barak who is
the most decorated soldier in Israel's history. When Moshe Dagan, the
former head of the Mossad, publicly stated his opposition to bombing
Iran his loyalty to Israel was questioned and even he was called a
traitor by thousands of people. Justices on Israel's Supreme Court have
been called traitors by the far right and religious. This is total
madness and we American Jews must not tolerate it and we must speak out
against it because it will wind up destroying Israel in the end.
Israel's supporters love to claim to the world that Israel is the only
democracy in the Middle East. If that is so why do these same people
engage in character assassination, debasement, and demeaning of anyone
who dares to criticize the policies of the Netanyahu government? Why is
it wrong for former and current generals in Israel's military and
members of Israel's security agencies to criticize bombing Iran? Why is
it wrong for American Jews and many Israeli citizens to support a two
State solution to the Israeli Palestinian conflict? When Bush and
Cheney were in office anyone who questioned parts of the Patriot Act
because they might not be constitutional was called a traitor and
supporter of Bin Ladin, which was a disgusting, horrible slur. The same
right wing fanaticism is on display in Israel. Either you agree 100%
with the current Israeli government or else you are an anti semite or,
if you are a Jew, a self hating Jew. No sane person can accept this but
yet it is getting worse by the day. More and more people are being
silenced and more and more people are being slurred and have their
reputations destroyed with accusations of anti semitism. Any country
that tries to silence its critics is not a democracy. What once made
Israel so special was the fact that spirited debate and disagreements
were a vital part of its democracy. Attacking someone's Jewishness,
their character, and trying to destroy them is not what the founders of
Israel ever envisioned. Impugning peoples motives, their integrity, and
branding them an anti semite simply because they oppose policies of the
current Israeli government is repulsive and must be resisted by all
those who truly love Israel.

It is either you are acomplete ignorant of the situation because this is
a palestinian land in the West Bank and the Palestinians are the only
once who have the deeds of these lands. Or youare fabricating new
geography and history of the area.

Palestinians hardly qualify as "indigenous" people.
Palestinians are very recent squatters and settlers. The Jews and other
extinct peoples and tribes could be classified as indigenous but not
recent Arab immigrants from Jordan and Arabia. They were simply the last
group on that bus. This does NOT necessarily mean it belongs to them.
The Ottoman turks and British occupiers were there before or around the
same time as the Palestinian Arabs who flooded in to fill the vacuum
left by the previous conflicts. Even American and Canadian
"aboriginals" or indigenous peoples were originally migrant
peoples from the Altai region of Russia and Mongolia. So why do we
assume they are the "rightful" owners of the land. Is it
because they were there a longer time ? using that logic then Palestine
is more rightfully belonging to the Hibiru tribe and even the Egyptians.
( note: Egypt is now occupied by Egyptian Arabs, the original egyptian
race does not exist anymore)

umar protect them from the terrorist jews....you need to stop
lying....everyone knows the truth...you are some polak whose kin never
entered the holy land befor you and his kin include attila the hun but
not abraham nor moses

Except you don't want that, do you Leon? You want the Jews to take
whatever they want and at best leave the Palestinians with the crumbs.
Well, as a fellow Jew that is not what I want and I believe that one day
the sort of justice I seek for both people will prevail in a 2-state
resolution and the sort of injustice you seek will be relegated to a
shameful chapter in the history of the Jewish people.

Are you really so full of hate that you want Israel to be the target of
a nuclear attack. You know there are a lot of people here trying so hard
to have a peaceful life alongside their Palestinian neighbours and
trying to find a solution to suit all. I don't want to blow up them and
I am sure the majority do not want to blow up me. We have crazy
governments and leaders who do not want peace on both sides. Grow up imad

Believe me, Imam Mahdi does not have the ball-balls to suit up in battle
against Israel's Messiah. Ask the maniacal mullahs in Qom who still
look down a well outside the city and await in vain for his majestic and
mystical appearance. What Imperial Iran wishes to build in 2013 for
offensive purposes Israel already developed in the 1960's for defensive purposes.

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